Term break - busy with what?

The 3-week term break will soon be over. What have I done?

First, I got my home and bedding (sort of) ready to house 2 friends, Amy and Coral, who spent the holidays with me. Since I haven't hosted anyone at my home for a long time, they became my guinea-pig house guests. I'm sure they suffered somewhat.

In front of my current home.

They joined two local tours. In between and after the tours, I played tour guide for a couple of days, and that was fun.

The San Gabriel Mission District

Disney Concert Hall

LA Downtown

Naples, Long Beach

Naples, Long Beach

During the past two weeks, mom required more health assistance than before. And so that was like doing a part-time job. Thankfully, Amy and Coral took time to visit mom with me. (Mom seemed to benefit from the visits. I was told by the nurse and another friend that mom ran in the apartment with a walker!)

All wearing glasses and, noted by mom, all women!

I also planned for a 2-day getaway with 3 other friends to Palm Springs. That was pretty relaxing.

Outside the visitor center at the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway

In front of a Methodist church on Sunday

A corner of the interestingly decorated hotel suite

The hotel comes with resort facility, which includes a swimming pool, indoor and outdoor spas.

Food & atmosphere in PS downtown were great.

Starbucks fans anytime!

Oh... almost forgot to mention. My landline and DSL were out of commission for almost a week. On our way back from PS, AT&T called and told me that my phone line's working again. I didn't know that they work on Sunday!


The above picture is the first AT&T guy investigating outside my house what the problem was. Though he looked cool way up the pole, he couldn't fix the problem and another guy had to be sent.